Amiguismo, from amigo, friend, is favoritism toward friends. In June 2021, the columnist Rafael Cardona wrote in La Crónica that “el amiguismo campea en el gobierno” (amiguismo runs freely in the government).
In October 2025, the sports site Unánimo Deportes criticized the call-ups of the national football team. It wrote that the coaching staff kept calling up some players “por inercia o por ‘amiguismo'” (out of inertia or out of amiguismo).